The IIL Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

By Jodie Hurst Introduction Project management is the soul of a successful organization. Regardless of your business size or role, embracing project management practices to propel your success to new heights. But with so many options in today’s market, how can you choose which project management tools will work the best for your organization? With the right tools at your disposal, you could create a seamless process to finish all your projects before their deadlines, streamline workflow, increas

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ActiveCollab

MARCH 26, 2024

Stakeholder engagement is a crucial component in the success of any project. It actively involves those vested in the project—through influence, impact, or both—in its planning and execution. This process ensures that the project aligns with the stakeholders' expectations and leverages their expertise and insights to navigate potential challenges effectively.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 25, 2024

Is virtual Scrum training effective? In this Responsive Advisors Scrum Lightning Round, Professional Scrum Trainers Robb Pieper, Greg Crown, and Jason Malmstadt share their experiences and perspectives on virtual versus in-person Scrum training. With insights drawn from their own transitions to online teaching, they offer a comprehensive look at the evolving landscape of Scrum education.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

By Ruchi Gupta, PMP ® , PgMP ® , PMI-ACP ® , PMI-RMP ® , SAFe, DASSM, SIP, Jira CBAP ® The accelerating rise of Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and others is rapidly reshaping the way project management operates. The Project Management Office (PMO) is no exception. As organizations strive for efficiency, productivity, and innovation, project managers must adapt to this new reality.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 26, 2024

Individuals often register for the PMI-RMP exam with the intention of advancing their careers, but some fail to complete their studies or pass the exam. Let's look at three effective study strategies to help you complete your preparation and pass your exam on the first try.1. Develop a Personalized Study PlanSome individual's study plan is […] The post Mastering the PMI-RMP Exam: Effective Study Strategies appeared first on Project Risk Coach.

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PM Times

MARCH 26, 2024

Over the 20+ years since the Agile Manifesto was created, more and more organizations see agility as key to success, especially for software development. Agile methodologies have revolutionized the way teams approach software development, emphasizing flexibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Ideally, there are Product Teams that handle development and maintenance throughout the product’s lifecycle.

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Inloox

MARCH 27, 2024

What is the PDCA cycle? Definition of the PDCA cycle The initial letters PDCA stand for the four steps in a continuous improvement process (CIP, Kaizen): Plan-Do-Check-Act (Plan-Do-Check-Act). The PDCA cycle, also known as the PDCA method, PDSA cycle (Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle), Deming cycle, Deming wheel or Shewhart cycle, is a four-step framework designed to improve processes through iterative testing, learning and refinement.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 25, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you looking to bridge the gap between your projects and the ever-evolving market demands? If so, aligning your project outputs with strategic business goals and customer expectations is a necessity. The collaboration between product and project management can seem complex, but finding this balance unlocks your potential to manage essential aspects of the organization.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 26, 2024

Construction projects must adhere to many codes and regulations. While some regulations are federal, many change depending on the municipality where the project is being done. Before a construction project can be completed, it must pass a building inspection. Building inspections vary, but they’re part of the construction process for commercial, residential and industrial projects.

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Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2024

Do you need to write a budget proposal report? I’ll show you how. We start with the 5 easy steps to plan and write your budget proposal. Then I’ll show you a worked example (from a fictional proposal but you will be able to see how to apply this to your project). A proposal budget is similar to a project budget, but with a very different goal.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2024

Optimizing Risk Responses in professional project management resonates profoundly with the empirical foundation of Scrum. Scrum's framework inherently addresses risk by embracing uncertainty and change, making it an ideal approach for managing both opportunities and threats in complex environments. For Project Managers transitioning to Scrum Masters, understanding how Scrum’s empiricism and iterative process effectively manage risks is key to successful initiative outcomes.

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Planio

MARCH 25, 2024

You can build the best product in the world, but without a solid customer acquisition strategy (and the right team to pull it off), no one will ever use it. But customer acquisition isn’t just about getting users for your product — it can be life or death for your company as a whole. In the last five years, the average cost of acquiring a new customer has increased by a staggering 60%.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 28, 2024

Notion is work management software that helps teams from across industries such as product development, engineering or marketing to facilitate team communication, manage tasks and create simple project timelines. While Notion has project management features, is there a Notion Gantt chart? We’ll get to that in a moment. Gantt charts are essential project planning and scheduling tools that can manage and track resources and costs.

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

The Agile project management methodology encourages organizations to empower teams with clear responsibility and authority, so they can work together to autonomously develop ingenious and innovative solutions. From the workforce perspective, this requires trust between team members, cross-functional teams, business executives and stakeholders. It also requires a structured mechanism for collaboration and information sharing, a guiding framework that maps interdependencies between individuals and

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Scrum.org

MARCH 25, 2024

Goals are a powerful tool. They provide purpose, direction and focus, allow for measuring of progress, facilitate prioritization and encourage commitment. From the Scrum Guide: The Sprint Goal is the single objective for the Sprint. Although the Sprint Goal is a commitment by the Developers, it provides flexibility in terms of the exact work needed to achieve it.

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Online PM Courses

MARCH 24, 2024

A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a hugely valuable Project Management tool. Make it easy for yourself. Create your WBS with a Mind Map. The post Work Breakdown Structure: How to Build One Effortlessly with a Mind Map appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Productivity Land

MARCH 26, 2024

In the era of big data, businesses are inundated with vast amounts of information. Yet, simply having data isn’t enough. It’s the ability to extract meaningful insights and turn them into actionable intelligence that sets successful enterprises apart. This is where data visualization plays a pivotal role. By presenting complex data in visual formats like charts, graphs, and maps, businesses can uncover patterns, trends, and relationships that might otherwise remain hidden.

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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 26, 2024

Prepare for an informative and exciting discussion on Hybrid Agile , where our CMO, Mahesh Singh, will discuss the topic with the esteemed Project Management expert and thought leader, Elizabeth Harrin, APM Fellow, and author of Managing Multiple Projects. Dive deep into this dynamic approach that seamlessly blends Agile and Waterfall methodologies, propelling your projects to new heights of success.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2024

People new to Scrum or without formal training sometimes use Scrum as an excuse for various bad practices. These practices can be very unproductive and may undercut many of the benefits that the organization is seeking from an Agile transformation in the first place. For example, Scrum is no excuse not to create a forecast for delivery or to accept a lack of direction for your product.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2024

A big part of becoming a truly product-driven organization is getting better at understanding the needs of your customers, and improving your products to meet their needs. In this video, Mary, Dave, and Lance take on the topic of customer journey mapping and show you how this tool can help you align around the needs of your customer. They’ll explain how this technique can identify the customer experience and put specific actions in place to court correct and wee out any of the negative experienc

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Ganttic

MARCH 27, 2024

Gantt charts are there to make project and resource management simple. A visual planning tool that’s easy to comprehend. They are beloved for the worldwide for the simplicity they provide to project managers. But, how do these tools, known for project planning and task scheduling fare to something as complicated as resource management? Are Gantt charts still the tool for you?

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

When an agile team is not performing and meeting its goals, it can have an impact on productivity and morale. One area that could be looked at for improving the performance of an agile team is it’s velocity and seeing if there is room for improvement. Improving a team’s velocity in Agile, particularly in the Scrum framework, involves several key strategies aimed at enhancing productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 24, 2024

Was macht ein Scrum Master eigentlich den ganzen Tag? Diese Frage erreicht mich fast täglich. Einerseits liegt es wohl daran, dass die Besetzung einer Stelle mit einem Scrum Master für viele Unternehmen noch Neuland ist. Deshalb sind die Verantwortung und Tätigkeit oft sehr unkonkret beschrieben. In manchen Fällen gleichen die Anforderungen denen eines Projektleiters.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 25, 2024

In this third installment of our value stream mapping series, Mary shows Lance and Dave how to apply the technique of value stream mapping to your business architecture and capabilities so that you can make more informed, intentional, data-driven decisions to improve your business. Want to Listen Instead? LeadingAgile · Using Value Stream Maps to Identify Improvement Opportunities Contacting Mary Lloyd If you’d like to contact Mary, you can reach her at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides

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MPUG

MARCH 23, 2024

There is a lot in your project environment that you cannot control, no matter how hard you try! However, you can control your own perspective and boost your productivity by adopting a time maximizer mindset. If you’ve not heard of a time maximizer mindset before, it is where you focus on what you can do today to make things better, faster, or easier tomorrow.

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This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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